Lemurian Time Warriors is the collaborative project of Vancouver B.C.- based Eris Nyx and Zachary Treble (ZDBT). Their debut full-length album, Hyperstition, released October 24th, centers on Nyx’s vocals, which are aimed at raising awareness of rampant addiction and overdose.
Fusing this with ZDBT's psychedelic industrial EBM breakbeats, Hyperstition is a furious war cry from the frontlines of the failure of the state to address this crisis. In particular, the album draws on Nyx’s experience attempting to save lives amidst the fentanyl crisis through the Drug User Liberation Front (DULF), for which she now faces three life sentences in Canada’s Supreme Court.
For additional coverage on the court case, we encourage you to read this article, published by The Tyee.
You can purchase the album digitally or physically via the Lemurian Time Warriors Bandcamp page. All proceeds will go towards Eris’s legal fund.
Between their performance at New Forms Festival and Eris’s trial on November 2nd, Peace Portal caught up with Lemurian Time Warriors here to get more of their perspective on the record and it's inspiration:
How did the performance of the album feel at New Forms?
Zachary: Like all of our performances it’s an exorcism of inner demons. Karana Mudra. /,,/
Eris: I jumped off a ten-foot piece of scaffolding right after fucking myself in the ass, and I broke my ankle. I guess it made me feel like purple is the new transcendence, and I mean that in the same way that Heidegger’s a kind of purple Dracula when you really think about it.
Zachary, how do the musical elements you produced support Eris’s message?
Zachary: Every sample and recording on the album carries a piece of our lives. Memories, obsessions, influences, and moments we’ve lived through. Hyperstition feels like the culmination of years of experimentation, a form of time travel through sound, a way to confront and channel everything I’ve experienced. It’s deeply personal and a vehicle for Eris’s message.
Eris, what can you share about your time with DULF, leading up to your charges? In particular, I’m curious about your interactions and relationships with people that were served by the program.
Eris: DULF was an experiment in decomposing the state through solidarity - or rather, through the failure of compassion as a political category. Every “service user” was a philosopher of the limit, each transaction a small rupture in the moral economy of prohibition. We weren’t saving anyone; we were accelerating collapse by refusing to moralize survival. The charges are just the state’s immune response - the system mistaking autonomy for infection.
How are you feeling ahead of your trial?
Eris: Like a machine that’s learned to simulate calm while disintegrating internally. The trial isn’t about guilt - it’s about tempo. Bureaucracy moves slow, rot moves fast. I’m just watching which one wins.
Aside from purchasing the record, how can folks support you, and how can people continue to affect positive change regarding the fentanyl crisis?
Eris: Support? Outside the ritualistic purchase of the record, the only real contribution is participation in the ongoing collapse of expectation: micro-donations, advocacy, spreading networked noise - each a tiny fracture in the state’s seamless temporal surface.
Positive change around fentanyl? It isn’t heroic intervention; it’s accelerating the hyperstition of harm reduction, tuning interventions as feedback loops, letting the chaotic throughput of survival overwhelm bureaucratic sense.
Act, propagate, destabilize: the system misreads it as resistance, the abyss reads it as signal. “Weapon of Choice- H2O [...] Set your clocks to maritime. . . “
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